Dutystation: Home based
Functional responsibilities
1. Coordination of the Development and Technical Oversight of CO-OPs
Lead and oversee the coordination of the technical quality assurance of country-specific CO-OPs in line with Big Push priorities.
Support national malaria programs efforts to translate strategic objectives into prioritized, actionable, and cost-efficient operational plans.
Ensure CO-OPs reflect best practices in resource optimization and programmatic feasibility.
2. Coordination with CRSPC and Support Mechanisms
Maintain close working relationships with CRSPC colleagues, especially sub regional offices, and partners to coordinate the timely provision of technical assistance.
In close coordination with the RBM data team monitor and track country support needs, progress, and challenges using a structured coordination mechanism using the RBM Global Malaria Dashboard.
Facilitate alignment of partner resources and capabilities with country needs, and escalate unmet needs to the CRSPC Secretariat team for rapid response.
3. Support for Funding Alignment and Implementation
Ensure that CO-OPs are designed to strengthen alignment between available funding sources and national priorities.
Support countries in operationalizing CO-OPs as part of their program implementation and performance improvement.
4. Monitoring, Learning, and Adaptive Management
Track and report on CO-OP implementation, outcomes, and bottlenecks.
Collaborate with the Impact & Efficiency Measurement Advisor to evaluate efficiencies and impact resulting from CO-OPs.
5. Knowledge Management and South-South Exchange
Document country experiences and lessons learned in CO-OP development and execution.
Facilitate structured peer-learning activities, including south-south exchanges and thematic workshops.
6. Policy Integration and Institutionalization
Contribute to the institutionalization of the CO-OP approach within RBM tools, guidance, and partner support models.
Provide specialist advice on how to scale and sustain the use of CO-OPs beyond the Big Push initiative.
Impact of Results
The work of the CO-OP Coordinator will directly support the RBM Partnership’s goals to:
Enable malaria-endemic countries to prioritize and operationalize their national malaria plans through data-driven, costed, and fundable CO-OPs.
Strengthen the technical coherence and financial efficiency of malaria investments.
Improve coordination among support partners via the CRSPC mechanism to deliver targeted and timely technical assistance.
Promote country capacity, ownership, and peer learning for sustainable malaria control and elimination.
Generate a body of evidence on impact, efficiency, and best practices to inform broader partnership and donor strategies.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education
Master’s degree preferably in economics, development economics, statistics, international development or another relevant social science discipline.
A bachelor’s degree in economics, development economics, statistics, statistics, international development or another relevant social science discipline with a combination of two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.
Experience
A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the costing or results based management or impact measurement in the public social sector in malaria endemic countries is required.
Within the 5 years, 3 years experience in stakeholders coordination of national programming related to social services in malaria endemic countries is required
Proven experience in program implementation or monitoring and evaluation is required
Ability to think broadly about national costing, resource optimization and efficiency is required
Demonstrated technical expertise the application of costing and prioritization metrics in a development context is desired.
Demonstrated knowledge of global health, sustainable development goals and/or alternative finance is desirable.
Language
Fluency in English is required.
Fluency in another UN language, particularly French is desirable.
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